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Labelled as The Devons embark.

This must be the 2nd battalion which sailed on the Manilla about 20th October 1899 and arrived at the Cape on 15th November. The 1st Battalion was one of the four infantry battalions which, along with three cavalry regiments and three batteries of Field Artillery, were despatched from India to Natal immediately before war was declared.

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No. 2 - Simla

P. & O. Steam Navigation Co., Ltd

Master: E.R. Dowell / S. de B. Lockyear
Chief Officer: A. Collier / C.A. Goldsmith / R.E. Peel
Chief Engineer: J. Reid / W.C.B. Ross
2nd Officer: R.M.M. Collyer / J.C.W. Stanley
Supernumerary 2nd Officer: S.C.E. Dayas / E.C. Miller / R.H. Stringer
2nd Engineer: D.K. Campbell / G.R. Robertson / J. Stirling
3rd Engineer: P. McL. Kelt
Purser: E.T. Bullen

Operated both as a Transport and as a Hospital Ship



Admiralty Return, 13 Aug 1903

Date of Admiralty agreement: taken over from Indian Troop Service
62nd Transport to be engaged by the Admiralty.
Served as both a Transport and a Hospital Ship.

Period of engagement: 14 Nov 1899 to 31 Oct 1902

Total days at sea: 573
Total numbers transported to South Africa: 169 officers, 11 warrant officers, 3,048 men, 10 horses
Total numbers transported from South Africa: 325 officers, 3,442 N.C.O.'s & men, 2 women & children
Total cost (hire, fittings, coal, port dues and conversion to a Hospital Ship): £253,433


SEE ALSO: No. 2 - Simla









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Nursing sisters aboard No 10 - Trojan



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I am not sure whether this counts as a picture of the Algeria, No 47

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No. 64 - Atlantian

F. Leyland & Co., Ltd

Master: W.S. Wallace
Chief Officer: W.J. Dickinson
Chief Engineer: G.H. Jolly
2nd Officer: J. Troughton
3rd Officer: J. McCormick
2nd Engineer: J.R. Moore
3rd Engineer: H. Lowrie / G.W. Rutter / G.F. Shearer
Purser: J. Williams


Admiralty Return, 13 Aug 1903

Date of Admiralty agreement: 7 Nov 1899
63rd Transport to be engaged by the Admiralty.
Carried cavalry only

Period of engagement: 16 Nov 1899 to 20 Jul 1901

Total days at sea: 174
Total numbers transported to South Africa: 47 officers, 2 warrant officers, 945 men, 827 horses
Total numbers transported from South Africa: 36 officers, 786 N.C.O.'s & men
Total cost (hire, fittings, coal, port dues and conversion to a Hospital Ship): £188,507





The Bushmen's Contingent Souvenir, N.S.W. Bookstall Co., Sydney 1900, p. 10







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Something of a challenge is this one as it is simply labelled as a transport leaving for South Africa and the all-important number, if it has one, is obscured.